Jonction (Genève)

Outdoor Comfort Living Lab

The Outdoor Comfort Living Lab Lab is located in the neighbourhood of Jonction, in Geneva. Its aim is to use participatory processes to design interventions that increase people’s thermal comfort during peak heat.

In this Living Lab, special consideration is given to cooling spaces in a way that meets human needs.

MAIN OBJECTIVE

Engage in a co-creative process with diverse actors to address comfort and wellbeing in outdoor spaces during periods of extreme heat. This involves working with several stakeholders, including the City of Geneva and various services, cooperative building, associations, and local inhabitant, among others. Following input from the ETHZ team, complemented by HEPIA, and research conducted by the UNIGE team in 2023-2024, a series of initiatives are planned for summer 2025 to cool people in outdoor spaces, ranging from installations to changes in cooling habits.

TOPICS

Open spaces / Well-being / Social changes

TYPE OF ENTITY

Neighbourhood

LIVING LAB MANAGERS

Marlyne Sahakian + Julien Forbat

PARTICIPATING SWICE MEMBERS

UNIGE / ETHZ / HEPIA / EPFL

PARTNERS & STAKEHOLDERS

Government

City of Geneva / Canton of Geneva / CPEG

Businesses

UrbaPlan / Eco-Impact / S.T.O.R.M.E.

Civil society

La JoNX / CODHA / AIDEC

JONCTION PROJECT WEBSITE

NEWS

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Living Labs Spotlight: La Jonction

Sep 1, 2025

Staying cool in a changing climate As heatwaves increase in frequency and severity, SWICE WP5 is focused on two important questions: how do we transform the outdoors and change our habits to adapt to hotter summers? Can we do so in a way that prioritizes...

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